Scott Newton Schools is an American lawyer and the chief compliance officer of OpenAI.
[1] Schools previously served as the chief ethics and compliance officer of Uber.
[2] Before joining Uber, Schools was the highest-ranking career civil servant at the United States Department of Justice, serving as associate deputy attorney general.
He has been characterized as “the most important unknown person in D.C.”[3] It has been reported that Schools was a significant advisor to top political officials Sally Yates and Rod Rosenstein, and made a significant recommendation to dismiss James Comey.
[6][7] In 2018, Schools was replaced by Bradley Weinsheimer, who now serves as DOJ's highest ranking career civil servant.